Top 100 Town Quotes
#1. A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.
Gio Gonzalez
#3. I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
Orhan Pamuk
#4. The dolphin fishing that takes place in Taiji town is an ancient fishing practice deeply rooted in their culture and their practices and supports their livelihoods.
Shinzo Abe
#5. Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#6. This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails
Daniel Defoe
#7. You don't get to see your family much. In the movie business, directors often go out of town for long periods of time, and even if you're in town, you're working 14-15 hour days. People tend to not balance out the important things in their lives with their career.
Jon Favreau
#8. I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
Stephen Sprouse
#9. And though there were no children playing, no doves, no blue-shadowed roof tiles, I felt that the town was alive. And that if I heard only silence, it was because I was not accustomed to silence - maybe because my head was still filled with sounds and voices.
Juan Rulfo
#10. I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.
Daniel Woodrell
#11. Neil kept to the shadows inside the house and out. They skirted through the courtyard and quietly made it into the garage. A second town car sat beside Blake's with Dillon behind the wheel.
Catherine Bybee
#12. I wondered if small town people became smaller in order to fit. Perhaps they had to.
Michael Lee West
#13. It was a time of dark dreams. They washed in like flotsam on the night tide, slipping beneath doorways and window latches, rising through the streets and hills; and the little fishing-town of Scarlock foundered deep.
J.A. Clement
#15. The Echo was a rag specializing in yard sales, area sports, and town politics. The residents scanned those things, he supposed, but mostly bought the paper for the obituaries and Police Beat. Everybody liked to know which of their neighbors had died or been jailed.
Stephen King
#16. An ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
Dylan Thomas
#17. If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.
Brian Fallon
#18. I can almost feel the wind beneath my wings; I can almost taste the thrill of flying away from this small town and never looking back.
Tessa Emily Hall
#19. Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
Bruce Springsteen
#20. I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
Gary Burton
#21. I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.
Mike White
#22. What can we do
when even the public conveyances
sing?
how can we go anywhere,
even cross-town
how get out of anywhere
Charles Olson
#23. I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.
Patti Smith
#24. It smelled bad there, like blood and rotting meat, a dense, heavy smell very different from the smell of his own town, which smelled of dirty clothes, sweat clinging to the skin, pissed-on earth, which is a thin smell, and smell like Chorda filum.
2666, Bolano
Roberto Bolano
#25. My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.
Ray Davies
#26. Funny how being decrepit, diseased and sentenced to death gave you so much power. She couldn't go to Morocco nor even drive herself into town. She could hardly move off the couch. But she could say whatever she wanted: she had bitch licence.
Fiona McGregor
#27. Las Vegas is not the kind of town where you want to drive down Main Street aiming a black bazooka-looking instrument at people.
Hunter S. Thompson
#28. It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#29. They wanted to expand the territory, so that spring they followed the Maumee River down past the ruins of Toledo, and then the Auglaize River into Ohio, and they eventually walked into the town where I lived.
Emily St. John Mandel
#30. To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.
Unita Blackwell
#31. You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
John Green
#32. The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.
Christopher Gist
#33. Last dance with Mary Jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in and I'm
Tired of this town again
Tom Petty
#34. In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage.
George Saunders
#35. My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.
Lennon Parham
#36. The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
Michael Ondaatje
#37. The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They're right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#38. I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!
Kevin Dillon
#39. I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans.
Sheryl Crow
#40. Wasn't the leap from the farm or the small town to the college campus enough cultural dislocation? Wasn't college education itself enough of a voyage?
Rachel Pastan
#41. We're still not going to talk about it, but just think for a minute, will you? Dragon?" She curled her hands into claws. "Rowr? Me leaving town?
Thea Harrison
#42. I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.
Claire Trevor
#43. My home is in whatever town I'm booked.
Polly Adler
#44. I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fourth dimension who are somehow interested in this really boring town.
Thomm Quackenbush
#45. As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.
William Shakespeare
#46. It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.
Charles Dickens
#48. I felt a sense of pride swell in me. Not for myself but for these two women. They were everything I wanted to be someday - successful, happy, dedicated to their town and its people, and most importantly they knew who they were.
Jana Deleon
#49. The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.
Graham Collier
#51. Tsk, tsk," I said, not moving at all. "Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail. Put it down and don't be silly, Joe.
Raymond Chandler
#52. I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#53. I'm twenty-four, a first grade teacher, have a Yorkie named Pedro, a goldfish named Fish, have never had sex, or a serious boyfriend, and I'm the town lesbian who pukes when she sees a pussy. Nothing really to be jealous of at all.
H.J. Bellus
#54. On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, with Curtis, my son Jamie's bull mastiff
Stella Vine
#55. He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy."
"Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You've never seen so many of the faithful who're armed.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#56. Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
Ernst Toller
#57. I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.
Taylor Swift
#58. It's the kind of small town where most people spend their entire lives in the culture of their childhood.
Erin Meyer
#59. I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Victoria Beckham
#60. When I'm working, I look forward to weekends. Film sets give your time a structure; otherwise, one day can run into another. I often find myself in unusual locations, so Friday nights I might head out with some of the cast and crew to explore the town.
Thomas Sangster
#61. 'A Tuna Christmas' is the second in a series of plays created by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams featuring the fictional town of Greater Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. What makes these plays so hysterically funny is the accurate portrayal of small-town life in the Lone Star State.
Lori Wilde
#62. If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.
Alonso Duralde
#63. Like the rooftop dogs, they were lost souls - they were running wild, or they drifted around town like ghosts.
John Irving
#64. The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does. - ANONYMOUS
Laura Ruby
#65. Beth's not on that train?"
"Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.
J.R. Ward
#66. We were letting go of October, relinquishing color,
readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice,
the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.
Mark Perlberg
#67. I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.
Newt Gingrich
#68. If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.
Ricky Gervais
#69. I was halfway across town when I realized I was heading toward a Wax Museum in a vintage Mustang convertible with a baby, a pig, and a mandragora in tow.
Land sakes. Was it just me, or was I getting weirder all the time?
Juliet Blackwell
#70. There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.
Edna Ferber
#71. My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.
Cecily McMillan
#72. Girls, now, they wear leggings. As pants. It's embarrassing. Just parading their coochies around town.
Stephanie Danler
#73. you'll learn how to recognize when you're living in the country called "Sad" in the town called "Victimville" on the street called "Hurt Lane" so you don't stay there longer than you need to.
Lisa Nichols
#74. The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
#75. But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other.
Sherman Alexie
#76. Pueblo, Colorado, a corrupt and decaying mining town high in the Rockies, is the setting for Heidi Julavits's The Mineral Palace, a story of motherhood, a troubled marriage, and the unveiling of long-held secrets.
Nancy Pearl
#77. I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.
Sergio Aragones
#78. From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.
Donna J. Haraway
#79. In Cainsville, town elders still hold power. They'll protect you.
Kelley Armstrong
#80. Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#81. I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.
Bruce Springsteen
#82. If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.
Ellen Goodman
#83. The standing ovation threw me ... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Michael Caine
#84. With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
Bjork
#85. I'm not dissing you, I'm ignoring you there's a difference. Dissing you implies I actually think you're important. Claire - Ghost Town
Rachel Caine
#86. There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.
Terry Pratchett
#87. Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs.
Kristin Cashore
#88. Mrs. Roberts, you remember when Mr. Roberts was out of town and you had me over? The thing we did with the pie? Who would have thought I could eat a whole pie, but then again who would have thought you could hold an entire pie down, well, down there?
Alex Morgan
#89. She drove slowly into town as the gold and rose fingers of the dawn reached toward fading stars that eluded them.
Dean Koontz
#90. We can't wait around for Superman to come in here and save the town, save the team. It's up to us to get it done.
Jermaine O'Neal
#91. The motivation I possessed to serve my country is what got me out of the small town of Lyons, Texas where I grew up, and into the world of service, love of country, helping others, and being an American soldier." (Page 90).
Kenneth A. Bracewell
#92. I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Maya Angelou
#93. What we're really trying to tell, even though it's very much a genre show, is a very human story. Even in this heightened situation, it still comes down to people being people, and dealing with people as people. It really is about the seven people in that town.
Remi Aubuchon
#94. I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.
Halsey
#95. We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.
George H. W. Bush
#96. Word around town is you're a bit of a dick-tator.
J.M. Darhower
#97. On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget.
Danielle Steel
#98. Each corner is a memory. In that way, it's just like every town.
Lena Dunham
#99. My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.
Julie Salamon
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